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Great Depression 1
New Deal Depression 2
1920s
Prohibition
Randoms
100
Day of the Stock Market Crash
What is Tuesday, October 29, 1929
100
The name for FDR's plan for the economy
What is the New Deal?
100
Characterized by short skirts, smoking, and drinking.
What is a flapper?
100
Someone who transports illegal alcohol
What is a bootlegger?
100
Roosevelt's speeches over the radio
What are Fireside Chats?
200
Danger of buying on credit
What is inability to repay?
200
The reason many banks went out of business in the depression
What is people pulling their cash out?
200
Small towns sprang up all around the country because of this new product
What is automobile?
200
Place where illegal alcohol was sold
What is a speakeasy?
200
John Scopes was arrested for teaching this
What is evolution?
300
Problem that farmers faced during the depression
What is drought / Dust Bowl?
300
AAA
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
300
Appliance that was created to help women do chores at home
What is a washing machine, vacuum, electric iron or hair dryer?
300
Most notorious gangster of the Prohibition Era
Who is Al Capone?
300
When a star basketball player is given a chance to retake a test and get passing while another student isn't.
What is a double standard?
400
Where many people were forced to move during the depression
What are shantytowns?
400
Daily Double: Government organization created to insure people's savings at a bank
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation? (FDIC)
400
President for most of the 1920s
Who is Herbert Hoover?
400
Constitutional Amendment that ended prohibition
What is the 21st Amendment?
400
Name of the black cultural movement in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
500
Hoover was worried government intervention would ruin this
What is Moral Fiber?
500
Created to give jobs to young men doing work such as building roads, parks and dams.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
500
What 3 stereotypically female jobs came about in the 1920s?
What is Secretary, Teacher, and Nurse.
500
The Amendment that began the prohibition era made these 3 activities illegal.
What is the Manufacture, Sale, and Transportation of alcohol?
500
Explain the goal of the Works Progress Administration.
What is constructing public buildings, roads and parks?